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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER VII
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I walk about among them.
"I was there an hour to-day before I saw a person that I knew; then I met the Nicholses and went with them into a side chapel to hear vespers.
Then I saw next the Waterstons, then Miss Lander; but I was unusually short of friends, I generally meet so many more.
"There were kneeling women to-day with babies in their arms.

The babies of the lower classes have their legs so wrapped up that they cannot move them; they look like small pillows even when they are six months old.

I think it must dwarf them.

We Americans are a tall people.

I am a very tall woman here.


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